(a) Employees who are engaged in providing companionship services,
as defined in Sec. 552.6, and who are employed by an employer or agency
other than the family or household using their services, are exempt from
the Act's minimum wage and overtime pay requirements by virtue of
section 13(a)(15). Assigning such an employee to more than one household
or family in the same workweek would not defeat the exemption for that
workweek, provided that the services rendered during each assignment
come within the definition of companionship services.
(b) Employees who are engaged in providing babysitting services and
who are employed by an employer or agency other than the family or
household using their services are not employed on a ``casual basis''
for purposes of the section 13(a)(15) exemption. Such employees are
engaged in this occupation as a vocation.
(c) Live-in domestic service employees who are employed by an
employer or agency other than the family or household using their
services are exempt from the Act's overtime requirements by virtue of
section 13(b)(21). This exemption, however, will not apply where the
employee works only temporarily for any one family or household, since
that employee would not be ``residing'' on the premises of such family
or household.
